Regulation
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Mandatory Busing Shows That Government Can’t Fix Complex Problems
Mandatory busing as advocated by many Democratic candidates is less a bad answer than the only answer to a terribly framed question emblematic of today’s miserable political landscape.
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Wage Floors Are Making My Son a Delinquent
My posterity, my son, does not feel blessed by the laws of New Jersey that prevent him from exercising his liberty by finding employment of mutual benefit to himself and his employer.
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School Segregation and Busing: Lessons in Government Failure
While offered as an ostensible corrective to the very real injustices of the school segregation that preceded it, busing itself is also a form of politically directed and centralized social planning.
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The Bad Theory Behind Overtime Rules
With its mechanical understanding of the process of wealth generation, the Department of Labor wildly exaggerates the role of labor hours in discerning, determining, and measuring economic value.
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Bernie Sanders’s Messed Up Idea of Requiring Employee Ownership
Efforts to change the composition of payments to employees, like those suggested by Sanders and championed by many on the left, are likely to leave the intended beneficiaries worse off. Such a policy means workers must choose between holding an under-diversified portfolio or incurring higher costs to achieve the appropriate mix of assets given their…
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The 7 Worst Ideas for Regulation This Century
The bad news is that along with great economic performance has come a good bit of silly, one might even call it stupid, regulation and proposals for regulation.
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Want To Be an Eyelash Technician? You Will Need a License for that.
Just as innovators shouldn’t have to ask the government for permission to bring new products to consumers, people who want to work and earn their livings by starting and running businesses shouldn’t have to ask the government for permission to do so.
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These are Not Just Opinions
Financial Exclusion is my nineteenth book and the vetting, editing, and publishing processes with AIER far surpassed those of the commercial and university presses I have published with previously.
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Flimsy Justifications to Restrict Your Freedom
Even a young child understands, without need of further elaboration, that no action is rendered acceptable simply because lots of other people do it.
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The Plague of Meddling Political Busybodies
The end goal of our planning paternalists is the command economy.
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Indiana Lawmaker Ignores Facts, Pushes Bill to Fight Teen Vaping
Prohibition is nothing but an immoral act, as it intends to impose certain standards on individuals who should be naturally free to make their own decisions.
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Antitrust’s Sordid History
The goal was to protect existing, politically influential producers from the competition of newer, more efficient firms.
